The conservative public interest law firm that challenged affirmative action at the University of Michigan is vowing to monitor academia’s responses to Monday’s Supreme Court rulings. The group, the Center for Individual Rights, also promises further lawsuits against institutions that overstep

(CBS/AP) The federal judge whose majority opinion sent an important affirmative action case to the Supreme Court improperly intervened in the appeal, a colleague said in an internal review that did not recommend any punishment.

Last summer, Corissa Mueller entered St. Luke’s Regional Medical Center seeking routine medical care for her feverish baby daughter. Hours later, the mother was accused of child neglect, detained by police and lost custody of her infant daughter. It all happened under a

An overwhelming majority of Michiganders — 63 to 27 percent — oppose the use of race in the University of Michigan’s admissions policy, but 57 percent support affirmative action for low-income students, a poll released Thursday

Now that Trent Lott has suppressed his nostalgia for American apartheid, vowed support for affirmative action “across the board,” and thus fed the notion that racial preferences are what African-Americans want and need, let’s look at some countervailing evidence: In public opinion polls that

One day back in the late fifties, when I was ten or eleven years old, there was a moment when I experienced myself as an individual–as a separate consciousness–for the first time. I was walking home from the YMCA, which meant that I was